OpenRoads Designer
Roadway design software
Data and design integration
OpenRoads makes collaborating on 2D and 3D models easier and more efficient than ever. From team-level, work-in-progress collaboration to project-level, multidiscipline coordination, project managers, reviewers, site workers, and inspectors can view designs, perform virtual walkthroughs, query model information, and analyze embedded property data. You can automate the production of high-quality drawings, including multidiscipline documentation sets, which are consistent across the entire project. Get a live view of the project in sheet orientation. As the design changes, so will the sheets. Make edits directly in the design model and the application will update the sheets.
Detailed road design
OpenRoads is all you need for geometrics, survey, drainage, utilities, quantity takeoff, cut/fill, site grading, lane configurations, and mobility. Ensure visibility into overall project performance with design-time analytics to achieve optimized design outcomes for a wide variety of analysis such as drainage, terrain, safety, grading, site visibility, and more. Roadway designers and engineers require software that seamlessly collaborates across disciplines, addresses growing industry demands, and includes automation to remove tedious manual work. Whether you need to produce traditional 2D deliverables, advance to 3D modeling, support digital transformation, or all the above, OpenRoads is the choice for road design.
2D, 3D, and beyond
Even as the transportation industry is moving towards the creation of 3D models, the need for a variety of deliverables continues to be part of the project workflow. With OpenRoads, you can create whatever deliverables you might need. Experience your designs in real time with constraint-driven templates, a context sensitive intuitive interface, and dynamic 3D modeling. Visualize the design at any time and on demand within the modeling workflow. No translations, software, or special workflow process is needed. Whether it is 2D or 3D, plans or models, digital or paper, OpenRoads is designed to allow you to work in all these arenas simultaneously, leveraging information from one to help populate the other. Our 3D models can be leveraged for 4D scheduling and 5D cost estimation, bringing your design to constructed fruition, on time and on budget.
“Bentley’s ambition to push technological boundaries and its ability to adapt to a changing environment has enabled the CCJV BIM team to develop a model that encourages a collaborative approach to both planning and efficiency.”
Technical Capabilities
Platform
- All MicroStation functionality
- Production drafting
- Create parametric solids, surfaces, meshes, and feature models
- Item types for custom attribution
- Reporting and tables
- Easily integrate hundreds of geographic coordinate systems
- Printing and plotting
- Integrate CAD data in many formats: DGN, DWG,DXF, PDF/U3D, IFC, Rhino 3DM, STL, VRML World, and SketchUp SKP
- Integrated visualization capabilities
- LumenRT visualization
- ProjectWise integration
Survey
- Read and write standard raw survey formats
- Survey data reduction
- Feature coding for custom survey feature connectivity, display, and annotation
- Adjustments: least squares, compass, crandall, and transit
- Dynamic graphical and tablular editing of survey field book data
Geometry
- Parking lots
- Pad layout
- Parcel layout
- Horizontal geometry (arc or chord)
- Horizontal geometry – clothoid spirals
- Vertical geometry (parabolic or circular)
- Horizontal and vertical best fit
- Customizable geometry reports
Geotechnical
- Query gINT® project files
- Display borehole locations
- Display borehole cross sections
- Display borehole fence diagram
- Annotate boreholes
Deliverables
- Plan and profile sheet generation
- Cross section sheet generation
- Sheet and object annotation
- Reporting
- Synchronization with iModelHub
- Export to common formats: DWG, DXF, LandXML, and IFC
Drainage and Utilities
3D models of drainage and utilities are quickly becoming a necessity; however, road design, drainage design, and utilities modeling are often completed by separate team members utilizing different software. Working in a vacuum leads to lack of coordination across disciplines, costly mistakes from out-of-date data, and missed opportunities to address conflicts. OpenRoads can help you with everything from the creation of models from 2D artifacts and external data, through steady and unsteady state hydraulics and hydrology, to BIM and plans production.
- 3D modelling of utilities, storm, and sanitary drainage
- Steady-state (e.g. rational method) hydraulic design and analysis
- Culvert design and hydraulic analysis
- Unsteady-state hydraulic analysis
- Pond design and analysis
- Hydraulic analysis of low impact developments
Modeling
- Site grading optimization
- Profile modeling
- Dynamic cross sections
- Earthworks – triangulated volumes
- Earthworks – end area volumes
- Customizable earthwork reports
- Superelevation
- Corridor modeling
Reality Modeling
- Raster images
- Attach point cloud
- Attach reality mesh
- Point cloud classification
- Reality mesh edit, drape, and extract tools
- Scalable terrain models
Terrain Modeling
- Import from LandXML
- Label contours and spot points
- Display contours, triangles, spots, and flow arrows
- Import from 20+ common formats (graphics, point clouds, ascii, InRoads®, GEOPAK, MX, LiDAR, and DEM)
- Import from Esri, USGS, and SRTM services
- Create complex and delta terrain models
- Edit terrain models
- Transform terrain models
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